Mike Tyson

Nurture of the Beast

Ellis Cashmore (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

284 Seiten

2004
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-3069-4 (ISBN)

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Beast. Monster. Savage. Psycho. The glowering menace of Mike Tyson has spooked us for almost two decades. And still we remain fascinated. Why? Ellis Cashmorea s answer is disturbing: white society has created Tyson as vengeance for the loss of privilege produced by civil rights. Cashmorea s eviscerating analysis of Tysona s life and the culture in which he grew up, rose to prominence and descended into disgrace provokes the reader into re--thinking the role of one of the most controversial and infamous figures of recent history. Told as an odyssey--style homeward journey to Tysona s multi--pathological origins in the racially--explosive ghettos of the 1960s, Tysona s story is part biography, part tragedy and part exposition. His associations with people like Al Sharpton, Don King and Tupac Shakur shaped his life; and events, such as the O J Simpson trial and the Rodney King riots, formed a turbulent background for the Tyson psychodrama. Over the course of an epic boxing career, Tyson was transformed from the most celebrated athlete on earth to a primal, malevolent hate--figure. Yet, even after being condemned as a brute, Tyson retained a power -- a power to captivate.
Cashmore reveals that the sources of that power lie as much in us as in Tyson himself.

Ellis Cashmore is Professor of Culture, Media and Sport at Staffordshire University

* Acknowledgments * chapter one -- Introduction: I will kill you. Do you understand this? * chapter two -- If youa d be kind enough, Ia d love to do it again * chapter three -- Are you an animal? It depends * chapter four -- Like watching a Serengeti lion rip into a warthog * chapter five -- His vital organs in exchange for forgiveness * chapter six -- Goda s planning to screw him * chapter seven -- To rape the virginal black princess * chapter eight -- In handcuffs in the back of a police cruiser * chapter nine -- They believe white men have had to pay for black success * chapter ten -- Time to leave the white mana s world * chapter eleven -- Facts are lost in the preconceptions of racial grievance * chapter twelve -- Give him enough time and the nigger will come out in him * chapter thirteen -- The debt of the ghetto bound * chapter fourteen -- Youa d still look at me as a scumbag * Bibliography * Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.11.2004
Reihe/Serie	Polity Celebrities Series
Zusatzinfo	1, black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	587 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
ISBN-10	0-7456-3069-3 / 0745630693
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-3069-4 / 9780745630694
Zustand	Neuware